What is Rules

Verification

What is it?

Verification is a process of user identity confirmation on the platform. Your account is verified through your phone number/your phone number and photo .

What is its purpose?

Verification prevents the creation of fake profiles, bots, and scammers, ensures real connections, and increases digital space safety. Also, without verification, you will not have access to all the application features — for example, all options for voting and polls, participation in quests, and talent development.

What happens to my data after verification?

Your phone number/phone number and photo are sent to Qela's database. After an admin/community manager sees and verifies your data, it will be deleted from our servers. For security purposes Qela doesn't store any of the supporters' data after the verification is done.

Campaigns and quests

What is a quest?

Quest is a supporter's practical action that helps the organization reach its goals. You can perform these actions as a supporter in Qela. Every quest increases your Vote Weight and develops your talents. Quests can occur online — for example, sign a petition, take an educational quiz, or post certain content on a social network. Or offline — participate in a rally, make a performance, etc.

What is a campaign?

It is one or more global goals of the organization, which are made of quests. Community members develop their talents while proceeding in the campaign and receive additional vote weight points and rewards.

What do I need to participate in quests and campaigns?

An active Qela account and a desire to do so :) Also, you have to be verified to participate in some quests.

Vote weight

What is it?

Vote weight is the sum of influence points, determining the supporter's contribution to the organization's development and achieving its goal. After registration, it equals 1, but it can grow to infinity as you participate in quests and campaigns. After verification you get 1 additional point of vote weight.

What is its purpose?

The organization makes decisions about its activities and policy based on the results of voting among its supporters. The bigger your vote weight is, the more significant yoru voice will be and, accordingly, the more impact you will have on some votings and community's deicisions

How does it work?

Each quest can earn you a different number of influence points depending on its type and difficulty. You can also get additional points for completing campaigns and their stages (so called chains). So the more quests, chains, and campaigns you complete, the greater your vote weight will be. If you finish 100% quests in the quest chain or campaign, the sum of vote weight points that you earned from them will get increased by 20%, if you complete 70% of the quests — 10%, and a 5% increase for 30% of the quests. The interim results will be rounded up to the lower percentage checkpoint. So, for example, if you completed 50% of the quests, you will still get only 5% increase and not 10%.

File Retention and Verification Period

Quests that require verification of submitted files by the administrator are verified automatically within 3 days after the quest's completion. We store your files for 30 days and then remove them from the system. Within these 30 days, you can appeal the quest's verification. This applies to the files you send to the organization for verification or confirmation of quest completion.

Voting

What does the "QELA formula" label mean?

When creating a new voting, the organization chooses whether it will be conducted using the vote weight (labeled "QELA formula") or according to the 1 person = 1 vote principle.

The QELA formula considers the vote weight, allows admins to calculate supporters' contributions from completing quests, and avoids abuse during voting. For example, it limits the vote weight of all unverified users to 10% of all votes to ensure the poll results are fair. Also, each verified participant can possess no more than 5% of the total voice weight points of all those who took part in the voting. The Qela formula works only when at least 21 verified users have participated in the voting.

Talent system

What is it?

Qela allows you not only to influence the activities of the organization, but also to upgrade your own skills, which are provided to each active member of the community. The quests you complete in Qela are aimed at developing one or a few of them. Each community (its managers) defines what talents (skills) can be developed by completing a particular quest. These can be, for example, the following skills: fundraising, recruiting, eloquence, creativity, intelligence, management, etc. What are the benefits of talents? It is important for an organization to understand what skills its supporters are interested in developing in order to improve its activities and quests-tasks to meet the needs and capabilities of the community. Therefore, by upgrading talents, you want your organization to engage in its activities more relevant to the organization itself. And your community can also establish the unique talents that would reflect its values.

Principles of calculating skill points

Skill points are rounded up to a higher value. Skill points, that an administrator puts in during the preparation of the quest, are filled in at the appropriate level according to the methodology. Nevertheless, they can change them but only in the appropriate framework, so the game doesn’t break. Basic framework — from 1 to 10 points.

The maximum number of skill points provided by the system is 1000 for each skill. Skill points increase differently depending on the level of skill mastery:

• LLevel 1 (from 0 to 25% mastery level) — they are accrued by 100%. The administrator can issue from 1 to 10 points;
• Level 2 (from 25% to 50%) - only 75% of the issued points are accrued. A user can get from 1 to 10 points, the calculation result is rounded up to a higher value;
• Level 3 (from 50% to 75%) - only 50% of the issued points are accrued. A user can get from 1 to 10 points, the calculation result is rounded up to a higher value;
• Level 4 (from 75% to 100%) - only 25% of the issued points are accrued. A user can get from 1 to 10 points, the calculation result is rounded upto a higher value.

Loss of skill over time.

If skills are not updated, they are lost over time. Every month the level of any skill should decrease by 3%. At level 4 it will be 0.75% of the loss per month, at level 1 it will be a full 3%. Thus, in one year, the skill at level 1 will decrease by 30.6%, in 2 years - by 51.9%, and in 3 years - by 67.6%. At level 4, the skill will drop by 8.6% in 1 year, by 16.5% in 2 years, and by 23.7% in 3 years. This roughly corresponds to reality in many cases.

Donations

How does it work?

You can donate money to your organization directly through Qela. One of the ways to do that is to participate in the “Donation” quest when the organization creates it.